Thanks

Hi Vets,Now
that I am out of Canberra hospital for few days, I would like to take
the opportunity to express my thanks to the club and the Vets members
who did come to visit me at the hospital and/or send me good wishes
messages ,these were the most welcome in these painful days.It was
one of these accidents which should not happen but does , as some riders
cannot help to cut on the inside of a turn! And when there is no room
…well riders fall off. But again it was a CCC event, actually Vets would
not do that sort of mistake?

Note:
We will also another volunteer at the finish line. If you are injured
or haven't volunteered to marshal at least once this year, then this is
an ideal chance to give back to the club and put your hand up.

RACE REPORT:

Gunning Handicap – 25th June

With
a very cold day threatening and few marshals, Saturday conditions were
not too auspicious. Fortunately, even as I drove out to Gunning, club
members were still ringing up offering to help. Rosemary gave up her
ride to do First Aid and Phill proudly furnished brand new satellite
phones, once the sole providence of polar explorers and wealthier
Everest mountaineers.Thirty riders turned up and while we had no one
from G grade, the others were well represented. With Rob Langridge
sick, we didn't have much of an opportunity to adjust times, but they
seemed reasonably close. After B grade had gone, A grade put on a
desperate argument convincing the officials to send them off then and
there. Britain would still be in the EU had it harnessed the persuasive
power of these impassioned advocates.With Henry away, the officials
lacked his uncanny precision to know just when the lead bunch would
return. However, the satellite phone from Breadalbane brought a touch of
modern technology and soon the lead vehicle pulled in, just in time to
alert us to a very fast sprint up the hill by B Grade's Andrew Simpson,
pulling away from Paul Welsh. A fast looming pack of C graders powered
up the hill and when they came in, four different grades were
represented in the top 10, making for an effective handicap.Marc Vrooman's time of 1:17:44 was the fastest of the day and maybe A grade should have got that little bit closer handicap!No one DNFd, no accidents and sparse traffic made for a good day of racing.Thanks
to the officials especially Rosemary for First Aid, Elton and Mark for
driving and John Paul for the lonely Breadalbane turn. Phill, Bruce and
Rosemary had the entire finishing line sorted and results were available
as the first coffee was being poured. Again, Graham Hendrie not only
raced but ran the signon, timing and setting up and packing away the
van.